Dolphins Lead ‘Complicated’ Social Lives -- ABC NewsIn what can only be described as “West Side Story” meets “Flipper,” scientists say they’ve discovered that male bottlenose dolphins break out into gangs to protect their females.
The researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, studied more than 120 adult dolphins, with a focus on the males, during a five-year period in Shark Bay, western Australia.
Their findings were published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B.
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My Comment: It sounds like they are in conflict almost all of the time.
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